Life At Bonnier - newspapers

Frida Boisen New Editor-in-Chief for Göteborgs-Tidningen

By Bert Menninga on 2012-02-07
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Expressen's west-Sweden edition, Göteborgs-Tidningen, to get new editor-in-chief.

Evening tabloid Göteborgs-Tidningen will get a new editor-in-chief this spring when Göteborg native Frida Boisen takes over. Boisen has previously worked at Göteborgs-Posten and Expressen, among other places.

First Week with New Dagens Nyheter

By Bert Menninga on 2011-09-29
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Ten days of the newly updated Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter have been published. We talked with managing editor Åsa Tillberg about the first week and what's in store in the future.

How have things gone since the Sept. 19 launch? Are you feeling sure on your feet yet?

It's gone extremely well, both in terms of our readers and for us at Dagens Nyheter. It's a big change in direction for the news staff since with the remake we also changed to a new system called Newspilot.

DN Eats Breakfast with Advertisers

By Bert Menninga on 2011-09-28
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Breakfast meetings give Dagens Nyheter a stronger relationship with customers.

On Monday, Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter invited a number of its advertsiers to a breakfast meeting at Escalier in Central Stockholm. The meetings were to talk about the newspaper's new weekend edition.

Henrik Stangel on Ad Market Challenges

By Bert Menninga on 2011-08-04
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Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter's advertising director Henrik Stengel talkis about the fight for ads in an increasingly fragmented media market.

What is the biggest challenge in ad sales, for Dagens Nyheter as well as the general market?

For Dagens Nyheter, we're facing a total remake of the newspaper which is a challenge both editorially and in terms of business. In the long run, the challenge is to reach strong profitability for DN as a whole. More generally, it means finding the right business model for every channel - print, web, mobile, tablets etc.

Meet Dick Thellmark

By Bert Menninga on 2011-07-11
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From engineering to advertising - and now being part of GROW at Bonnier Corporation. 

Dick Thellmark is an engineer who switched lanes.

"I stopped studying when I got an entry-level position at Sydsvenskan's advertising department during the 1980s," says Thellmark.

Better Business with the DN Card

By Bert Menninga on 2011-05-31
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With tailored offerings to 230,000 households, the DN card is a winning proposition for Dagens Nyheter.

Stockholm from above with DN-kortet. Photo: Roland Thornberg

Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter's customer club card, DN-kortet, started as a way of rewarding subscribers, but it has become much more than that. Some 230,000 DN-card holders can now choose to take advantage - or not - of a range of travel, entertainment and products especially chosen for them.

Pontus Schultz on Paper Versus Digital

By Bert Menninga on 2011-05-19
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Pontus Schultz speaks at SPCI 2011.

Pontus Schultz, project manager News+ and publisher at Bonnier Tidskrifter, was one of the speakers at SPCI, a Swedish event for the newspaper industry. Speaking on "Paper vs. Digial Media," Schultz made the point that digital and print can work well together.

"In the print world, we look at digital media with fearful fascination, as if it were conflicting with paper," said Schultz.

He Chooses the Best Newspaper Design

By Andreas Mattsson on 2011-02-04
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Southern Swedish daily Trelleborgs Allehanda's Rickard Frank is in New York as a jury member to choose the winners for the Society for News Design prizes.

The job is well-defined: choose the world's best-looking newspapers. The contest is for the Society for News Design (SND) and is one of the premier newspaper design contests in the U.S.

Yesterday, Editor-in-Chief Rickard Frank of Trelleborgs Allehanda, landed in New York to join the jury for jury for SND.

City Continues to Grow in Skåne

By Bert Menninga on 2011-01-20
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On Monday, the first issue of free newspaper City Lund was published and later this spring will come City Kristianstad. Annika Henning is City's new face in Lund.

Lund resident Annika Henning has worked at Sydsvenskan, Aftonbladet, Kvällsposten and Metro. She's now taking on a new task: she'll develop the one-woman editorial desk of the new free newspaper edition City Lund. Helsingborg and Landskrona in southern Sweden have had editions already and now that the Malmö/Lund edition is being split into two, there will be four editions of City in the Skåne region - the southernmost part of Sweden.

Christmas at Sydsvenskan

By Bert Menninga on 2010-12-21
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Sweden's daily newspaper Sydsvenskan hands over the news desk to kids on Christmas Eve.

Southern Swedish daily newspaper Sydsvenskan is doing something very different this Christmas. Twenty ten-year-olds will be joining the news desk and deciding the contents for a majority of the newspaper for the Christmas Eve issue. Nearly all the sections will have children as editors. 

"The world is big for ten-year-olds, and they're still extremely inquisitive," says Emma Leijnse, project manager for the special Christmas Eve edition. "We want the paper to reflect reality from their perspective."